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leon niemoczynski / immaculata university I. Introduction: Natura Naturata and Natura Naturans cstatic naturalism believes that a rich conceptualization of nature should emphasize the reality of a basic ontological difference between a ground that is responsible for generating the world and the encompassing yet incarnate processes of the world. The ontological difference mentioned here is a difference between "nature naturing" (natura naturans) and "nature natured" (natura naturata).1 ecstatic naturalism takes seriously the difference between nature naturing and nature natured because it is a philosophy that recognizes nature's immanent or incarnate processes of semiotic generation as well as the reality of nature's transcendental generative ground (a ground that "natures" via sign processes).2 Thus, ecstatic naturalism is a philosophy with a capacious view of nature because it attempts to leave nothing out in its account of what is real, including the immanent, the transcendent, and the reality of an ontological difference between the immanent and the transcendent. for ecstatic naturalism, then, nature as a whole--the immanent, the transcendent, and the difference between--should not be interpreted to be a thing but must be said, rather, to be an encompassing reality whose dimensions include creativity and process (naturing naturing) but also what
American Journal of Theology & Philosophy – University of Illinois Press
Published: Mar 26, 2013
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